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Lines and Episodes by 

ISABELLA FISKE CONANT 

Dances Originated and Directed by 

ANNA EASTMAN FROST 



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The use of the Pageant grounds is 
by courtesy of the Metropolitan 
Park Commissioners. Thanks are 
due them and many others for 
their co-operation. 



Copyright, 1914, by 
Isabella Fiske Conant 

SEP 22 1914 

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Committees 



Executice Commiltec 
Miss Marion Niles, Director of the Community Club, 



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airman 



Miss Gertrude Cahill 

Miss Martha Doonan 
Advertising Committee 

Edith Early, Chairman 

Mary Anderson 

Catherine Cooney 

Nellie Cooney 

Agnes Delaney 
Costume Committee 

Mrs. Thomas A. West, Chairman 

Miss Alice Delaney 

Mrs. Bernard Early 

Miss Florence Hyde 
Pageant Grounds Committee 

Mr. Roland B. Pendergast. 

Mr. William Taffe 



Miss Edith Early 
Miss Evelyn Robbins, 



Gertrude Dunleavy 
Alice Gleason 
Mary Howard 
Emily Rourke 



Miss Lydia Hyde 
Mrs. Harold Niles 
Mrs. Woodford Taylor 



Chairman 

Mr. David Warren 



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Mrs. Cecil Q. Adams 
Mrs. G. Harold Adams 
Mrs. George B. Ager 
Mrs. Roger W. Babson 
Mrs. David E. Baker 
Mrs. Robert M. Baker 
Mrs, Schuyler S. Bartlett 
Miss Katherine Lee Bates 
Mrs. Wallace C. Boyden 
Mrs. Gamaliel Bradford 
Mrs. N. B. Kneass Brooks 
Mrs. Arthur E. Brown 
Mrs. Edwin 0. Childs, Jr. 
Mrs. Charles E. Cobb 
Miss Helen Temple Cooke 
Miss Elizabeth Crehore 
Mrs. Frederick M. Crehore 
Mrs. Howard P. Converse 
Mrs. Frank F. Davidson 
Mrs. William Doonan 
Mrs. Bernard Early 
Mrs. James Early 
Miss Sarah P. Eastman 
Mrs. Moses Ellis 
Mrs. Herbert L. Felton 
Mrs. Irving J. Fisher 
Mrs. George B. Folsom 
Mrs. Charles S. French 
Miss Sarah Fuller 
Mrs. Josiah H. Goddard 
Mrs. Allen Greenwood 
Mrs. Orrin C. Hart 
Mrs. Charles E. Hatfield 
Mrs. Edward B. Haskell 
Mrs. Walter A. Hersey 
Mrs. Parke W. Hewins 
Mrs. Royal R. Heuter 
Mrs. Theoda J. Hill 
Miss Amy Homans 
Mrs. Edward C. Hood 
Mrs. Hammond Hovey 
Miss Edith M. Howes 
Mrs. Arthur Hunnewell 
Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell 
Mrs. Anna H. Hunting 



Mrs. Charles H. Jones 
Mrs. John Lee 
Miss Isabel Little 
Mrs. Arnold Livermore 
Mrs. George H. Lowe 
Mrs, George L. Lovett 
Mrs. Mary R. Martin 
Mrs. Louville V. Niles 
Mrs. William C. Norcross 
Mrs, John E. Oldham 
Mrs. Edward R. Peirce 
Mis? Ellen F. Pendleton 
Mrs. Roland B. Pendergast 
Mrs. Edward A. Perkins 
Mrs, Edward W. Perkins 
Mrs. George S. Perry 
Mrs. Waldo E. Pratt 
Mrs. Helene M. Priest 
Mrs. Lucy E. Prescott 
Mrs. J. Murray Quimby 
Miss Mary C. Sawyer 
Mrs. Joseph B. Seabury 
Miss Vida D. Scudder 
Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw 
Mrs. John H. Sheridan 
Mrs. Isaac Sprague 
Mrs. Chrles H. Spring 
Mrs. Charles E. Stearns 
Mrs. Edward Stevens 
Mrs. George W. St. Amant 
Mrs. Robert W. Studley 
Mrs. George A. Sweetser 
Mrs, Henry P. Talbot 
Mrs. Arthur Tucker 
Mrs. Chauncey W. Waldron 
Mrs. Henry C. Ward 
Miss Cornelia Warren 
Mrs. John W. Weeks 
Dr. Isabel Weston 
Dr. Frances Westergreen 
Mrs. George B. Whitten 
Mrs. Joseph F Wight 
Miss Annie B. Williams 
Mrs. Guy M. Winslow 



prologue 



The river flows 'neath bridge and arch 
Through meadows, still and slow. 
Past oak and willow, pine and larch, 
While, on its banks, in ceaseless march, 
Our generations go. 

It rises amid farmsteads old. 
Where long-past years come back. 
On legends of an age of gold, 
Of wood-folk or of Indian told 
All down its curving track. 

We summon back awhile today 
Its lost reflections bright. 
And let our fancy dream and play 
Along its shimmering memory-way 
Of golden underlight. 

It seems that now once more we see 
The fairy or the faun; 
Our children whisper you and me. 
That these wee people still are free, 
Nor is their magic gone. 

We listen where the echoes call 
Under the arches' span. 
And as the sweet notes faint and fall 
Our childhood comes back to us all 
And shouts again to Pan. 

Our best-loved poet watched it flow 
'Neath skies shining or gray, 
And from him many tales we know 
Of folk that wandered long ago 
All down its winding way. 

Wabun, the East Wind, loved a maid 
Of Hiawatha's line. 

His name beside our stream has stayed 
And o'er the waters where they strayed 
Twin stars of light, they shine. 

Leif Ericson, his prow made fast 
Beside the river's mouth. 
The wide Atlantic crossed at last. 
His lot at Norumbega cast. 
Following the river south. 

Along the river speeds the train, 
Beside it shines the wire. 
Unto the great town on the main 
The wide stream flashes back again, 
A flood of sunset fire. 



O'er it sweet charity a tower 

Has built for children blind, 

Who, more than all the world, have power 

Beauty to feel, and hear its shower 

Of bells upon the wind. 

Out from its northward factories go 
Where once were wildwood flowers, 
Dials that no more fast than slow 
Move for man's days of joy than woe. 
And measure human hours. 

Our old sun-dials used to dream 
Mid rose and hollyhock 
Now they are gone, but not the gleam 
Of silver tides that swing and seem 
The beat of Nature's clock. 

Quaint costumes once made bright this street 

And old Saint Mary's knows 

And tells, in wordless chiming sweet 

Of how the present changes fleet 

Into the past, and goes. 

A sleeper lies there 'neath a stone. 
Moss-grown, without a name. 
Yet has a poet made him known. 
And loved; in fireside stories shown 
And won him worthy fame. 

Our once-free waters, changeful blue. 
The mill-wheel tosses white. 
To serve our need their purpose new. 
Let us not shame their service true. 
But love, like them, the light. 

The river winds throughout the town. 

In gentle, devious ways. 

Upon it autumn leaves drift down. 

And some are bright and some are brown. 

Like our own human days. 

Like it, our lives wind on today. 
In quiet ways and free. 
With m.any a task beside the way. 
And many a meadow, all for play. 
And then, at last, the sea. 

EPILOGUE 

Here by;' still waters, all at peace 

The world seems, yet afar 

Is deadly strife of enemies. 

God grant this conflict soon may cease 

And earth no more know war. 



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PROLOGUE 

Singing is heard. As it dies out, the Spirit of the 
Present approaches and speaks, through the prologue, 
giving the story of the river and its symbolism of human 
life. The Prologue and Epilogue are read. 

EPISODE ONE 

Location: Echo Bridge, at Necoton Upper Falls. 

As she concludes, the reflections come dancing forth 
Spirits of the River, they are clothed in such colours as, 
season after season, are reflected from clouds, sky and 
flowers. They represent, too, memories and imaginings 
of the past and dreams of the future. The reflections 
dance and disappear, the arches appear and form, 
the reflections return and dance through the arches. 
Echo is heard. The Reflections sink down wearied. The 
mists come to refresh them, and dance around them. 
As they disappear, the little men of the hillside come 
cautiously out. After making sure that they are alone, 
they frolic, and play at nine-pins, but, discovered by 
the fairies, they hastily run off. The fairies also dis- 
appear. The reflections return and dance, through 
the arches. They sink down, wearied. The mists 
come to refresh them, and dance around them. Echo 
is heard. 

EPiSODE TWO 

Longfellow's Legends of the River 

A. The Reflections disappear as the East Wind arises, 
Wabun, the ancestor of Hiawatha. He seeks the maiden 
Wabun-Annung, the Star of the Morning, who comes 
singing along the river bank. Wabun drives before 
him the mists that hide her from him and dances. The 
stars come out and shine and draw the lovers to them- 
selves, according to the legend. 

The Spirit of Colonization 

B. Leif Ericson and his followers are seen, coming 
up the river in canoes. They land. From afar, two 
Indians watch, amazed. The Spirit of Norumbega, 
the dream-city that he is to found, beckons him on. 
The watchful Indians follow. 

EPISODE THREE * 

The Electrification of the Railroad. 

The smoke of the train over powers the Spirit of the 
River. She shrinks and cowers. The cinders exult 
and sport. Electricity, the Spirit of Invention, raises 
and restores the Spirit of the River, till it shines and 
sparkles in the full sunshine. 



EPISODE FOUR 

The Bell-Tower 

The figure of Light leads a group of little blind 
children. The bell-ringers dance for them and ring 
their chimes. The children are from the Perkins in- 
stitution at Watertown on the River. 

EPISODE FIVE 

The Wallham Watch Factory. 

A clock-dance is given by the Waltham Girls' Club, 
some of whom are watch-makers at Waltham. 

EPISODE SIX 

The River-Gardens of the Old Homestead. 

The fairies bring the flowers into the garden. They 
go back to their riverside and return with the bees and 
butterflies which they have called, then disappear. 
Folk in old-time costume enter the garden followed by 
gardeners, to whom they assign tasks, then go. Sam 
Lawson, made famous in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 
"Oldtown Folks," loafs, while the other farm-hands 
work. The village children, out at recess, discover 
Sam, and rushing in, beg him for a story. He enter- 
tains them, while the gardeners also drop their work 
and listen, till the district school-teacher comes, ring- 
ing her bell. She chides Sam, who slouches off, followed 
by the men. The garden is left to the flowers. The 
sun comes out and shines and the flowers follow his 
rays. 

EPISODE SEVEN 

From the Source to the Sea. 

The curving map of the river forms. The autumn 
leaves drift down upon the water. The Spirit of the 
River dances, and passes along its course between the 
banks and is met by the Tides of the Sea. 

EPILOGUE 

America, the Peacemaker. 

America enters, bearing the Flag. Europe approaches 
her, bound with the shackles of war. America frees 
her and unfurls the Red Cross Flag. Meanwhile, 
national airs are played. 



Cast of Characters 

The Spirit of the Present, Edith Early, President 
The Spirit of the River, Anna Eastman Frost 



REFLECTIONS 



Echo Marion H. Niles 

Margaret Anderson 
Mary Anderson 
Alice Caine 
Nora Cooney 
Ethel Cooper 
Madeline Dodge 



Edith Early 
Agnes Flynn 
Elizabeth Gildea 
Mabel Hovland 
Helen Warren 
Molly Williams 



LITTLE MEN OF THE HILLSIDE 



Carl Barkhouse 
Richard Corcoran 
Peter Dunn 
Arthur Manning 



Joseph Smith 
Joseph Tangney 
Robert Taylor 
James Thompson 



ARCHES 



Dorris Armstrong 
Mary Cooney 
Anna Higgins 
May Howard 



Josephine Pendergast 
Helen Pendergast 
Katherine Pendergast 
Annie Flynn 



Annie Cooney 
Bessie Cooney 
Jennie Cooer 
Mary Delaney 
Alice Donahue 



MISTS 



Helen Flynn 
Anna Gleason 
Marie Laffie 
Alice Murphy 



LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL 

Wabun the East Wind, Ada Blake 

Wabun — Annung, Margaret Dodd 

Leif Ericson, John Cunningham 

Norumbega, the Spirit of Colonization, Elizabeth Chandler 



Nora Cooney 
Madeline Dodge 
Mary Downey 



STARS 



Mary Slamin 
Nellie Slamin 
Florence Taffe 



NORSEMEN 



Herbert Bancroft 
Harold Brown 
Archie Connolly 
Lewis Connolly 
Raymond Cunningham 



Charles Eliot 
Philip Enholm 
John Higgins 
Joseph Spring 
Clarence Taylor 



Mrs. Joseph H. Seaver 



INDIANS 

Carl M. Safford 



SPIRITS OF THE SMOKE 

Mrs. Roland B. Pendergast Miss Lelia Remnitz 



CINDERS 



Carl Barry 

James Bowler 

Raymond Brown 

Fred Cadman 

William Collins 

Electricity, the Spirit of Intention, 

Light, Catherine Cooney 

Children of the Perkins Institute 

Bell Ringers 

Sentriss Curlin 



William Finn 
Edward Harrington 
Paul Harrington 
Patrick Tangney 
Edward Cooney 
Roy Early 



Stanley Partridge 



WALTHAM CLUB GIRLS 



Nellie Flanagan 
Margaret Murphy 
Lillian Peck 



May Sullivan 
Rose Thompson 
Mae Wolcott 



Fairies 
Dorothy Barry 
Grace Barry 
Marie Collins 
Dorothy Cooper 
Eleanor Cooper 
Helen Cooper 
Pamelia Gifford 

Hollyhock.s 
Viola Dennis 
Mary Finn 
Alice Gleason 
Mary Murphy 

Roses 

Margaret Bowler 
Alice Calden 
Pearl Cooper 
Elizabeth Davis 
Margaret Donahue 

Bumble-bees and Butterflies 

Elizabeth Cooper 

Rose Finn 

Etta McDonough 

Esther Healy 

Old-time Folk 
Katherine Cooney 



GARDEN SCENE 



Mary Harrington 
Ethel Mclver 
Anastasia Murphy 
Edna Peele 
Helen Tangney 
Helen Thompson 
Esther Thompson 

Bernice Rourke 
Emily Rourke 
Clara West 
Lucy Young 



Annie Dunn 
Florence Healey 
Jennie Morrill 
Annie O'Neil 
Theresa Tangney 



Wilhemina Rourke 
Lillian Sanford 
Ida White 



Ellen Murphy 



School Teacher, Mary Thompson 

School Children 

Stanley Brown Donald Mclver 

Fred Collins Eddie Mclver 

Jane Curry Henry Mclver 

Frank Davis William McPhail 

Bernard Malloy Helen Taffe 

Theodore Malloy William Taffe 



Sam Lawson, W. Lee Burchstead 

Gardeners 

Edward Cahill Philip Early 

Sun, Laura West 

THE TIDES OF THE SEA 

Elizabeth Raynes Katherine Sewall 

Persis Stearns June Tarr 

EPILOGUE 

America, Mrs. Charles Stearns 
Europe, Nellie Cooney 

Singing 

By Members of the Impromptu Club, Brookiine 

Mrs. Walton U. Crocker, Director 

Trio, by Arthur Foote. 

Little Pappoose by Cadman 

In Fair Seville by Bolero 

The Little Creek goes Winding by Arthur Foote 

Instrumental 

Ralph E. Brown and Orchestra — Strings, Flute, Cor- 
net, Piano 

L'Escarpolette Barns 

La Boheme Puccin i 

Troldtog Grieg 

Solvejgs Lied Greig 

Intermezzo (Henry VIII) German 

The White Dawn is Stealing Cadman 

Wedding Day Grieg 

Torch Dance German 

Clock Symphony Orth 

Shepherd's Dance German 

Spring Grieg 
Danse Russe Trepak, (Nut Crackers' Suite) 

Tschaikowsky 
Dance of the River, (written for Mrs. Frost) 

Valse Triste Sibelius 
National airs and March 



George Wong 

Laundry 

2258 Washington Street - - Newton Lower Falls 

Qleason Bros. 

BROWN'S ORCHESTRA 

Ralph E, Brown, Leader Melrose 

Raymond Dilucci 

'THE FRUITMAN' 

HEINE FELDMAN 

Shoemaker 

Br. JF. ^. Seating 

Dentist 

Waban Block 

Wellesley 

Wm. B. Saunders 

Carpenter and Builder 



McHale's Market 



James A. Early 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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